Difficulty Level - Beginner.This design does involve a lot of travel stitching, but don't let that intimidate you! Just take it slow and stay right on the line.

Design Family - Edge to Edge. This design works like Flowing Glass where you stitch from one edge into the center all along your quilting space, then travel stitch to the opposite edge and fill in the same way, matching up the star shapes so they interconnect together.

Directional Texture - 2 Directions. This design has a clear horizontal or vertical texture. Play with stitching both straight and wiggly lines for a slightly different effect.

Suggestions for Use - Here's a cool mix for a winter themed quilt: Blocks filled with Poinsettia, inner sashing filled with Chain of Holly Berries, and the outer sashing or borders filled with Icicle Lights. Sounds like a fun, festive quilt indeed!

14 comments:

I love it! I'm working on a snowflake block-of-the-month and will plan on using this in the filler blocks! Thanks!I also want to tell you how much I appreciate your site. Your designs are great and your videos are incredibly helpful. Thanks!

I really like this one Leah! Of course I like real snow, so that makes sense.Had to laugh at your staying up until 6:15. Monday night I stayed up until 3:35 Tuesday Morning, sewing crumb/scrap blocks. Being about 25 years older than you it would be equivilent. My body (Wednesday morning after 7 more hours sleep) tells me it still isn't forgiving me. Hmmm, maybe it's kind of like dog years, lol.

Have you designed any other snow/ice related fillers? I need something to evoke "snow", and all my experiments are hexagon or rhombus based, which are tricky. I love how "Icicle Lights" evokes ice crystals without using a hexagonal grid.

I love Debbie's take on your late night! I was thinking I do the same thing, but 1 or 2 am is my limit. With my 1,4, and 6 y.o. kids, if I stayed up 'til 6, I'd have to just stay up---and boy would it be ugly at my house!

But thank God for the late night quilting that keeps me sane.

Now that you've immortalized your Icicle Lights on the web, maybe you'll find it next fall for a timely project.

I am working on a Halloween table runner, and am a beginner free motion quilter. Just upgraded my machine for my 40th bday (yesterday)and started looking around online for ideas and was amazed and thankful to find you on you tube, and then your blogsite. THANK YOU.

I used your videos and stippled in the background of my witch and pumpkin blocks, and a very elongated pointed stippling vertically to define the pumpkin "sections". I used spiderwebs in the wider center stashing, and I have my own crazy dangley spiders attached. Saw this icicle lights idea - and think I will think of them as my mini dangle spiders for the skinnier outside sashing. THANK YOU again. With three kids under 7 I can relate with your story and appreciate the determination it took to get this far. sincerely, laura

THANK YOU! I just upgraded my machine for my 40th bday and have found everything I needed, at a beginning free motion level, for my Halloween table runner! I used your spider webs, although I used a right angle and only two more spines to swag the web through to simplify it. Then used stippling in background through out. Cucumber vines for curly witches hair in my witches block. Pumpkin block has pointy elongated curved ( ) stipling to echo the idea of pumpkin sections. And now I have found these icicle lights that will make great dangley spiders ---* in my 2 inch outer border. Precious and just the inspiration I needed.

A Little Advice from Leah:

Stop stressing about perfection. Perfection does not exist past 25 inches! Actually, make that 5 inches.

Don't be afraid of your tension dial - it was put there for a reason.

Quilt because it makes you happy, not because you need to "finish this damn quilt!"

If you've never quilted before and are waiting for that perfect day when the kids are grown or you're retired, STOP WAITING! Today is the day, now is the time, get off your butt and do it!

Eat, Quilt, Sleep, Repeat.

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